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I'm thinking about an "Osmosis Jones"-type story, but as an allegory for communism. Could show the potentially positive aspects in a human society (e.g., working towards a common goal) and the deleterious ones (e.g., subjugation of individual liberty, and even one's own life, in service of societal goals). Like, all of the cells (people) are working towards keeping the body alive, but it's the body of a rapacious murderer.

This doesn't extend to metaphors about individualistic society very well though: within a body, that kind of thing is typically cancer. Maybe that makes sense though *from* the communist perspective?

I'm thinking about "trolley problems" for autonomous vehicles...I'm thinking that a practical system would only degenerate to the classical trolley problem in a very few cases, but for the most part, you'd just design the system to maximize survivability of crashes for all observable or inferred humans and then, fixing that solution, to minimize property damage. Early on, you'd just have all humans classified the same. From there, you'd have a model based on size of the human or
(median human in, say, a structure you can't "see" inside).

I'll bet at least one child was born in Africa last week after a difficult delivery and named "Evergiven"

This lofi meme(?) has gotten weird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY

It's kinda nuts that they're also doing a promotion for ppl who aren't choosing to get vaccinated. Like, why? https://krispykreme.com/promos/vaccineoffer

I'm just hearing about #deliveroo. Is it as big as grubhub or uber eats in the US in the countries where they operate?

I was thinking about #smartcontracts and #NFTs. Like, I guess you could use them to transfer titles/deeds with less overhead, which, yeah, probably: less ink and stamping once you have some template contracts. However, I've read suggestions that these things enable cross-borders trust... that's B.S. though. Two parties could agree on terms in a smart contract and with whatever terms, but one or the other party could still renege and it would still devolve onto some state to enforce the provisions, which is the state of affairs now.

I know they want me to put "engineer" for my job title but as a software engineer, I don't always *feel* like a real engineer. Like, I mostly make web apps--important web apps--but not control software for a rocket or something.